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Motherhood Didn’t Make Me Brave. It Made Me Furious.

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Maskot/DigitalVision/Getty ImagesI learned how to fight from my mom.She had four babies by the time she was 20 and raised us mostly on her own, on a waitress’s tips. We often relied on food stamps, public housing, and Medicaid to get by. The kind of safety nets people love to debate until they are the ones who need them.Still, somehow, she never let us feel small or ashamed. My mom had a remarkable ability to create abundance out of scarcity. Her logic was simple: kindness is free, so we could always afford that.Almost every day, as a family, we would do our “good deed of the day.” Sometimes i...

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